Along the banks of the Mississippi in a sleepy Missouri town, Tom Sawyer is a clever, restless boy with a genius for mischief and a knack for wriggling out of trouble, much to the despair of his long-suffering Aunt Polly. Whether tricking other boys into whitewashing a fence for him, courting the pretty new girl Becky Thatcher, or roaming free with the ragged outcast Huckleberry Finn, Tom turns ordinary boyhood into one grand adventure after another. But greater escapades, and real danger, lie just ahead. Twain's beloved 1876 novel captures the wild freedom and mischief of childhood in a vanished American world.